SPORTING TERMS AND BIG CATS 343 



THE SCREAM OF A PANTHER. 



Remember that Wild Lands is only one hundred 

 and seventeen miles from New York City, and 

 although there are a few black bear, deer and wild- 

 cats in the woods surrounding the log house, I 

 never expected to see or hear a panther, and 

 doubted the accuracy of my hearing; but Mrs. 

 Beard also heard the woman-like scream, and called 

 to me, saying: "Someone has upset in the lake." 

 The next day I quietly made some investigation, 

 and discovered that a large animal had followed 

 a young man one night through the woods from 

 Wolf Lake almost to his own door; also that as 

 one of the lumbermen was driving his best girl 

 home from a dance he had heard 



"A LOST WOMAN" SCREAMING 



in the dark, and was about to go and search for 

 the wanderer when a violent thunderstorm caused 

 him to desist and take his lady-love home, also that 

 our cook who had attended the country dance, had 

 heard the "lost woman" upon several occasions. I 

 further learned that a number of others had started 

 out to succor the supposed woman whom they 

 thought was lost in the woods while after blue- 

 berries. 



Next I discovered that Mr. Elmer Gregor of 

 the Forest Lake Club had seen 



PANTHER SIGNS 

 on the road to Mast Hope. The panther had 



